Turn in case assignment due for JustinMind Introduction Lab2

Review Case assignments for Night Owl – Data and Mortgage – Business Rules

Class Discussion on Persona – Scenario – Prototype

Exam 2 Review

Team Project As Is deliverable review

Draft copies of your team’s As IS  analysis  defining the current state  of  your project topic

Deliverables:

• Swim Lane Process flow Diagram
• Data Diagram
• Key business rules / Decision tree

The goal for this portion of the project is to use the analysis tools we reviewed in class to depict the current state of the problem / opportunity that the team has chosen to pursue.  Your team will have an opportunity to make adjustments to the documents and include the final copy as part of  the final project submission.

You may submit the draft documents to me at the end of class via email or in hardcopy form, please bring a printed copy of the documents to class or a laptop to present the documents in a peer team review session.  This will be a exercise where teams pair off to share each others findings and give feedback.

Complete the JustinMind Prototype Introduction Lab2

Due on 3/17/2015

Turn in a hardcopy print out at the beginning of next weeks class

Lab can be found under the Assignment Case Material section of the website

Link to Lab assignment

Turn in case assignment due for Mortgage Program Case Study

Review Case assignment for Night Owl – Data

JustinMind demonstration of linking screens and review of individual assignments

Class Discussion on Design and Team Exercise

Team Project time to work on As Is analysis and deliverables

Mortgage Program Case Study
Due Class 8, March 10, 2015

Read Mortgage Program Case – Business Rules

Use the Business Rule Template

The Deliverables:  Using the information provided:

1. Identify the set of business rules that The Home Mortgage Company is using to decide what interest rate and type loan (fixed or variable) to grant to an applicant for a thirty year loan.

2. Draw a Decision Tree of how The Home Mortgage Company should link these business rules to decide what rate and loan type to offer the applicant.

3. Write a list of questions (4 -5) that you want to ask Jack Jones when you go back to him with your draft rules to check if they are correct.

Follow up on Exam question, please bring you answer sheet from Exam 1

Review Swim Lane Process flow case assignment

Class discussion on business rules

Team exercise on decision diagram

Review individual assignment on business rules / decision diagram due 3/10/2015

One on One meeting with teams to review next steps for project

Update the working version of your team’s project scope document to include a detailed description of the following deliverables in the approach section of the problem statement (3rd paragraph). You are not required to produce the deliverables at this time, just identify them to clarify what you will be working on over the next few weeks.

• Document the As Is State using analysis tools
  • Process flow – swim lane
  • Data Diagram – Entity Relationships
  • Business Rule – Decision tree
• Develop potential solutions scenario(s) and  personas
• prototype to demonstrate the To Be State
• Develop and delivery of a Client Presentation
• Target completion date 4/21/2015

See additional information about the team project deliverables, follow link

Data Analysis Case:  Night Owl Case link

The Deliverables:

Use the ERD Excel Template Sample to:

1. Create a Glossary of terms from the case
2. Identify all the data entities that the Night Owl database will need.
3. For each entity, identify all of the attributes that must be collected.
4. Indicate the relationships between the different entities.

Use the tool of your choice (Google docs, MS Access, Word, or Sketch on Paper) to create an ER or Schema Diagram to demonstrate the releationships

Each Team will turn in a Project Scope Document base on the topic selected at the end of Class 4., document should be prepared for Class 6 on February 17, 2015

The teams will have an opportunity to revise and finalize the document after reviewing with me during a group session (about 10 minutes)

Use the project scope template located on the class web site

Swim Lane Process Flow